Abbey & Casey | Fluvanna County High School – 2015

Things have been so busy around here, I’ve fallen way behind on my blog posts! I have so many senior portrait sessions coming up with the Class of 2016 but before I get started, I wanted to share one of my favorite sessions with the Class of 2015!

I’m a little embarrassed to admit this, but out of all the seniors I’ve photographed from the Class of 2015, my son Casey wasn’t one of them! There’s a whole list of reasons why it didn’t happen, scheduling problems, illness, or, like the photo below, weather related issues. Finally we found a day right before graduation that worked for everyone. We loaded up the car, drove into Charlottesville and literally, a second after I got my gear set up, it started pouring down rain! I took this quick shot of Abbey & Casey and then quickly crammed everything back into my van.

I was hoping it would be over soon so we went to a nearby parking garage to wait it out. I took a few photos of him skating but it soon became obvious that the storm wasn’t going anywhere. We gave up an headed back home. Casey’s been skating since the 7th grade so I’m super glad I got these two photos though!

I meant to have his session later in the summer but time got away from me and the next thing I knew, it was August and it was time to take Casey to Virginia Tech! I knew I wanted to take photos of Casey and Abbey (his absolutely amazing girl friend and former client. Check out her awesome senior session here ) before they both left for college so we decided kill two birds with one stone and have a quick session in my studio.

I am SO glad that we did it!!! Not only did it give me an excuse to test out my two new backdrops, (which I LOVE!) but more importantly, I was also able to capture some of the wonderful relationship that these guys have. They have so much fun together, no matter what they are doing! I literally spend so much time laughing when I’m with them and I swear I can feel my heart growing larger like the Grinch’s did on Christmas morning! 🙂

Abbey fell in love with the tulle circle skirt I made for my pink color session so I decided to make a cream-colored version for her as a going away present. She looks so unbelievably adorable in it!!! Oh and Casey didn’t look too bad either! )

I know I’ve gone a little overboard with the amount of photos in this post but this is how I’m dealing with my empty nest! The house is really quite these days and looking at the photos of these guys makes my heart happy!

Good luck at Emory & Henry, Abbey! I know you will have an amazing time and will considerably brighten up that campus with your wonderful personality! Oh and Casey? Call your parents once in a while, okay? 🙂 We couldn’t be more proud of the man who you’ve become. You are so caring and compassionate. Plus you crack me up on a regular basis, hands down one of the best qualities a person can have!

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Ali Johnson is a portrait photographer specializing in senior portrait photography in Charlottesville, Crozet, Keswick, Albemarle and Fluvanna County VA